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Swing in ankeny, iowa. since her announcement monday, she s obviously been busy, first of all, with her day job. she was southern into her new senate term just yesterday on capitol hill. but she s also been pretty active on social media, as well. she has been busy tweeting and she s been pretty active on instagram, including opening up a bottle of beer while live-streaming a conversation with supporters on instagram live. now, the last time, as you said, that senator warren was in iowa was in 2014. you might remember that she was campaigning with former congressman bruce braley when he was trying to challenge now senator joannie ernst. obviously, that was not successful. so the fact that senator warren has not been here in a couple of years is going to really raise the stakes for her. we are going to see whether that political raw talent is there. and we re also going to see how people just react to her here in iowa. i m already seeing a line beginning to form, actually, outside of thi ....
Pull out 2018. aetna saying this is an death spiral. we have the trajectory for health care today with the current status is not acceptable. it is collapsing. and right now only there s a third of the counties in the country that only have one health care provider. so insurance provider. so we don t have a sustaining system. and what we need to do is cree the dynamic of competitive markets. and that in itself will bring prices down and make a product more affordable. all right. north carolina congressman, robert pittenger, thanks so much for your time today. members of congress facing tough questions from concerned constituents. joannie ernst is still undecided on the republican proposal. but yesterday she tried to sell her constituents on parts of the bill. we can t maintain the current status of the law, because we know that it is it s failing already. ....
Something of them taking away the guns and fear what s coming and even something reasonable too many and manchin and pro-gun, they have come with a message, in terms of proposal which is basically about checking who gets a gun. they have gone right up to the line and i hope in the interest of gun safety that they don t go too far. i think they have gone just about right and you can t in any way suggest to someone you re anti-gun. you have to manchin is out there i think in the tv commercials with a gun in the hand. it s almost i mean, we saw john kerry duck hunting in full gear, full camo a couple of times ago. you have to be almost outrageous to show you re a gun guy and even a gun woman. joannie ernst castrating hogs ....
O connor, host of and editor at large at ij review.com. let s tackle the two competing headlines first. larry, how can newspapers get who is right? who is wrong? well, of course, i think both the new york times and washington post are consistently wrong. that s an easy question to answer. you know, i don t understand why this is even a discussion right now. the fact of the matter is big gop donors are not the reason why the gop won last month. that s not why larry hogan won in maryland and is a shocking republican governor in a state like that or joannie ernst in iowa. it s because the grassroots voters were excited and motivated. the rnc needs to stay out of the process and let the people choose their candidate, and i pick i want a long process. let them go through the process. really? because it s kind of this age old argument. some people say, well, if you let them do that, then they beat up on each other. ....
We re back with kim stasel and alicia finley also joins us. so kim, let s talk quickly about iowa. joannie ernst puts that state in play. is that now a toss-up for november? this is suddenly now a good prospect for republicans. this woman, she won decisively, an amazing example of what happens when you have pretty much everyone, the chamber of commerce, a lot of these tea party groups, everyone from sarah palin to marco rubio and mitt romney all supporting this woman. she got a lot of recognition out of it. her name i.d. went up in the state, and suddenly now a real contender to the democrat, bruce braley, a freshman, and isn t necessarily well-known in the state. not necessarily well-loved. freshman member of congress. so now we ve got a broader playing field, something like, depending on who you talk to, anywhere from 11 to 14 senate seats in play, which really does make this the possibility of retaking the senate very real. ....